The official prequel to the hit television show
France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
- ISBN10 1398718041
- ISBN13 9781398718043
- Publish Date 25 April 2024
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English